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New Facility, Press Expand Printer’s Capabilities, Sales MOUNT VERNON, WA—Skagit Publishing has moved its news, advertising, circulation, business and administration staffs into the company’s new headquarters building here.

The 59,000-square-foot complex includes a production department that houses a new Manugraph DGM 440 web press with 16 units configured as three color towers and two two-high black towers. Ribbon decks will allow for printing three pages across the cylinders for a total capacity of 42 broadsheet pages in a single press run. The press capacity will be 40,000 newspapers per hour, with an average speed of 30,000 cph.